[Vision2020] Shopping Center Plans Filed forPullman-Moscow
Highway Site
Bruce and Jean Livingston
jeanlivingston at turbonet.com
Sun Jan 8 18:19:39 PST 2006
We understand that if the sales tax money goes to Boise, that in some fashion a portion gets back to us.
But when that portion has no connection to the generation of the money in the first place, it is madness to consider the slight pro rata return of our portion of state sales tax money as automatically being worth the cost of the required infrastructure and quality of life losses that are needed to generate the money. There are far better ways to seek growth and economic development than to focus on large scale retail when sales tax is not retained by the community bearing the brunt of the development.
Bruce Livingston
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Harkins
To: Mark Solomon ; vision2020 at moscow.com
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 12:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Shopping Center Plans Filed forPullman-Moscow Highway Site
Mark,
The tax code in Idaho is complicated and so it is not surprising that many are confused about how the dollars get allocated.
Please refer to http://www3.state.id.us/cgi-bin/newidst?sctid=630360038.K where the allocation of the state sales tax is described.
At a minimum, counties and cities receive about 14% of sales tax collected. Distribution to specific counties and cities is usually based on the proportion of state population and/or proportion of assessed value. While the distribution formula should probably be based on sales generated, the use of population and assessed value probably tracks retail sales pretty closely.
Here is an excerpt from the State Tax Commission on the revenue sharing program:
Tax Revenue Sharing
In fiscal year (FY) 2004, 11.50 percent of Idaho's sales tax revenue was distributed to local
governments based on the state's temporary 6 percent sales tax rate. About 3.24 percent of Idaho's
total sales tax revenue was distributed directly to cities. Half of this amount was distributed according
to population, and the other half was based on the market value of property within each city.
Another 3.24 percent of the sales tax revenue was distributed directly to the counties. Each county
received a guaranteed annual amount of $30,000. The rest was distributed according to population.
In addition, 4.13 percent of the sales tax was distributed to counties, eligible cities, and nonschool
taxing districts according to a complex formula based on amounts received in 1999, current
population (for cities and counties), and current property taxes (for other eligible nonschool taxing
districts). For more information on the formulas used for the distribution, contact the Idaho State Tax
Commission.
Also, eligible taxing districts received $13.4 million annually in quarterly distributions from state
sales tax revenues to replace property tax on agricultural equipment that was exempted from property
tax by legislation in 2001. And, small amounts of lottery withholding and estate tax were distributed
to eligible counties.
Distributions were made after the end of each quarter, so the FY 2003 fourth quarter portion of these
totals was distributed in July 2004.
So - bottom line Mark - if the pie is smaller, we get less pie!
At 05:53 PM 1/7/2006, you wrote:
The day that sales tax revenues stay where they were collected you might have an argument. But they don't.
Mark Solomon
At 1:26 PM -0800 1/7/06, Jeff Harkins wrote:
And the sales tax revenue lost????
At 12:56 PM 1/7/2006, you wrote:
Do we have ESP, or what, Tom??? *laughing*
Wal-Mart should go out there on the highway if they
insist on being here. A Wal-Mart Superstore in Idaho
is not fair to those who work there. Drive a few more
miles to Washington, For discussion sake, let's say
$2.00 more an hour minium wage. So.... $16.00 more
dollars a day. That $80.00 more a week per FTE?
$320.00 more a month, for a 40 hour employee, not bad.
Not bad at all.
Idaho residents working in Washington still pay Idaho
state taxes.
One store, in the middle of both cities, is better
than 2, ten miles apart.
The current site for a Super-store is not acceptable
to me.
Janesta Carcich
--- Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
>From today's (January 7, 2006) Moscow-Pullman Daily
News -
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Shopping Center Plans filed for Pullman-Moscow
Highway Site
Application includes a Lowe's home improvement store
Staff report
Tow months of rumors an speculation about the
possible development of a
shopping center on the Pullman-Moscow Highway are
confirmed with the
application from a Boise developer to build one on
the site.
Whitman County Engineer Mark Storey said Hawkins
Companies submitted an
application for a conditional-use permit and filed
an environmental
checklist required under Washington's State
Environmental Policy Act. The
application was filed Wednesday.
Speculation started in late October when a sign
appeared on the site near
the Idaho border announcing plans for development of
a shopping center. The
sign disappeared two weeks later.
The company's website displays plans for a complex
just west of the Idaho
state line. The design includes three large retail
stores, one of which has
been earmarked for a 135,000 square-foot Lowe's home
improvement center.
The plans also include space for eight smaller
retails stores ranging from
20,000 to 30,000 square feet and eight smaller "pad"
areas.
Lowe's declined to comment on a possible store in
the Pullman-Moscow area,
although a company representative did say the home
improvement chain plans
to expand throughout the United states in 2006.
Storey is reviewing the application and said it will
take between two and
two-and-a-half months for the application to move to
a public hearing before
the Board of Adjustment.
Representatives of Hawkins Companies have not
responded to requests for
interviews.
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Anybody taking odds on how this will affect
WalMart's application for a
super center?
Take care, Moscow.
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
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